Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office will appeal an August 13 ruling by the Court of Appeals that former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan cannot be prosecuted for the March 1, 2008 post- election violence in Yerevan that killed ten.

The Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling to arrest Kocharyan on charges that he usurped state power during the 2008 protests.

Kocharyan was charged on July 26. Two days later, a Yerevan court issued an order detaining him for two months.